What Is the Role of HIV Testing at Home?
Is home HIV testing feasible?
Home-access testing for HIV met with virtually unanimous opposition when it was first proposed.1 Today, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), leading clinicians, gay activists and AIDS advocates have all endorsed home access testing.2 The barriers to home access testing have not been technical, as feasibility studies have demonstrated.3 Home testing has been possible fo
¿Que es la prevención pos-exposición (PEP)?
¿por qué PEP ahora?
Aún no se descubre la cura del SIDA. La prevención continúa siendo la mejor forma de detener esta epidemia.
¿Que papel juega hacerse la prueba del VIH en casa?
¿será factible el examen casero para la detección del VIH?
Cuando por primera vez se planteó la posibilidad de poner al alcance del público un estuche casero para la detección del VIH, esa se encontró con oposición unánime.1 Hoy en día los Centros para el Control de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en Inglés), destacados miembros del sector salud, activistas “gay” y los defensores de la lucha contra el SIDA ap
A Buenas Preguntas… ¡Mejores Respuestas!: Un manual de investigación formativa para los programas de prevención de VIH de California que muestra cómo las organizaciones y los departamentos de salud pueden formalizar el proceso de investigación y usarlo para guiar y mejorar sus servicios. La investigación formativa ofrece la oportunidad de formular las preguntas que permiten indagar información clave sobre lo que se quiere o lo se está llevando.
The following two outlines of focus group questions are taken from the Sexual Negotiations among Young Adults in the Era of AIDS research study. Prepared by Diane Binson, PI. Funded by the Universitywide AIDS Research Program, R94-SF-050. Instruments:
Good Questions Better Answers: A Formative Research Handbook for California HIV Prevention Programs is for community agencies and service providers. The handbook shows how agencies and departments of health can formalize the research process and use it to guide and improve their services.
The questionnaires for unmarried Latino women and men were used in a random digit dial telephone survey of 1500 Latinos in ten states in the U.S. These states contain 90% of all Latinos living in the continental U.S. The survey was designed to assess risk for HIV due to sexual behaviors as well as the variables that might predict sexual behaviors such as condom use.
Scoring: N/A Reliability and/or validity: Please see a description of the instruments. Marín BV, Tschann J, Gómez C, Gregorich SE (1998). Self-efficacy to use condoms in unmarried Latino adults. American Journal of Community Psychology. 26(1), 53–71.
The successful two-drug combination therapy in 1994 and protease inhibitors in 1995 set the stage for a new era in treatment of HIV disease, creating a burst of optimism over the prospect that HIV might be a controllable disease. Initial studies of protease containing triple-drug regimens suggested that these combinations could, in some cases, slow clinical progression of the disease and prolong the lives of patients.
Although sharing used needles is a high risk for HIV transmission, substance abuse and HIV goes beyond the issue of needles. People who abuse alcohol, speed, crack cocaine, poppers or other non-injected drugs are more likely than non-substance users to be HIV positive and to become seropositive. People with a history of non-injection substance abuse are also more likely to engage in high-risk sexual activities. Many injection drug users (IDUs) use other non-injected drugs primarily.
A pesar del alto riesgo de transmisión del VIH al compartir jeringas, la relación que existe entre el VIH y el uso de drogas va mucho mas allá del tema de las jeringas. Las personas adictas al alcohol, al “speed” y a la cocaína-crack, los “poppers” o cualquier otra droga no inyectada, están más propensos que aquellos que no usan drogas a ser portadores del VIH y a convertirse en seropositivos.
How Do HIV, STD and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Work Together?
Why is it important?
HIV is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). HIV, other STDs (such as gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, chlamydia and trichomoniasis), and unintended pregnancy are all adverse consequences of sexual behavior. If someone is at risk for unintended pregnancy or common STDs, that means they are engaging in an activity that could also put them at risk for HIV.
¿Como trabajan: la prevención de las ETS, del VIH y de los embarazos no planeados?
¿por qué es importante? El VIH es una enfermedad de transmisión sexual (ETS). El VIH, otras ETS (como la gonorrea, la sífilis, el herpes, la clamidia y la tricomoniasis), y los embarazos no planeados son consecuencias adversas del comportamiento sexual.
Should we teach only abstinence in sexuality education?
Why all the fuss?
Schools have become a battleground in the nation’s culture wars. In the fight over the hearts, minds-and libidos-of our nation’s teenagers, the latest skirmish involves sex education. The question is not whether education about sexuality belongs in the schools (there is well nigh universal accord on this score),1 but rather, how to approach the topic.
¿Debemos enseñar “solo-abstinencia” en la educación sexual?
¿por qué tanto alboroto?
Las escuelas se han convertido en el campo de batalla cultural de la nación. En la lucha por conquistar el corazón, mente — y líbidos — de nuestra juventud, la última contienda incluye la educación sexual. La pregunta no radica en que si la escuela es el lugar apropiado para enseñar educación sexual (en esto todos estamos de acuerdo),1 más bien es, como abordar el tema.
What Are HIV Prevention Needs of Adults Over 50?
Are older adults at risk?
Yes. Over 10% of all new AIDS cases in the US occur in people over the age of 50.1 In the last few years, new AIDS cases rose faster in middle age and older people than in people under 40.2 While many of these AIDS cases are the result of HIV infection at a younger age, many are due to becoming infected after age 50.
Politics rather than scientific evidence is driving the debate over abstinence-only vs. comprehensive sexuality education programs. It is an approach to making policy that may satisfy the needs of some adults, but does nothing to address the crucial needs of young people.
In health promotion, as in medical care, the informed practitioner usually chooses a proven effective strategy over one for which there is no indication of effectiveness. Anything else is malpractice.
Why is communication important?
Sexual activity begins early for many teens. Almost four of ten (37%) 9th graders have had intercourse, and nearly seven of ten (66%) have had intercourse by 12th grade.1 Every year three million teens, or almost a quarter (1 out of 4) of all sexually experienced teens, will contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
